March 10th, 1972

Born on March 10th, 1972

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on March 10th?

March 10th, 1695

Nine Years' War: At the Battle of Sant Esteve d'en Bas, Catalan miquelets attacked a column of French regular infantry and caused them to surrender.

March 10th, 2019

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa International Airport due to a fault within the software of the plane, resulting in the deaths of all 157 people on board.

March 10th, 2008

The New York Times revealed that Eliot Spitzer (pictured), Governor of New York, had patronized a prostitution ring.

March 10th, 2006

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (artist's impression pictured) reached and entered orbit around Mars.

March 10th, 1990

Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted as the military head of state of Haiti.

March 10th, 1977

Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered a faint ring system around Uranus.

March 10th, 1975

Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnam began its final push for victory over South Vietnam with an attack on Ban Me Thuot.

March 10th, 1968

Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders of Lima Site 85.

March 10th, 1966

Military prime minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.

March 10th, 1965

Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, left office after 27 years, the longest term of any democratically elected leader in the history of Australia.

March 10th, 1959

An anti-Chinese uprising began as thousands of Tibetans surrounded the Potala Palace in Lhasa to prevent the Dalai Lama from leaving or being removed by the Chinese army.

March 10th, 1949

Mildred Gillars, nicknamed Axis Sally, was convicted of treason for working with the Nazis as a broadcaster.

March 10th, 1945

World War II: The United States Army Air Forces conducted a firebombing raid on Tokyo that killed at least 90,000 people.

March 10th, 1915

The Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the first deliberately planned British offensive of the First World War, began.

January 1st, 1970

The Roman Republic defeated Carthaginian forces at the Battle of the Aegates, off the western coast of Sicily, in the final battle of the First Punic War.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 10th

Born on March 10th, 1972

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Timbaland

American musician, record producer, rapper, singer, and songwriter

*March 10th, 1972, Norfolk

54

Matt Kenseth

American racing driver

*March 10th, 1972, Cambridge

54

Mark Waschke

German actor

*March 10th, 1972, Wattenscheid

54

Nick Gates

Road bicycle racer

*March 10th, 1972, Sydney

54

Majid Abdolhosseini

Iranian karateka

*March 10th, 1972, Qom

54

Ramzy Bedia

French actor

*March 10th, 1972, 16th arrondissement of Paris

Same year
Born in 1972

54

Steve Barclay

British politician

*May 3rd, 1972, Lytham St Annes

54

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova since 2020

*May 24th, 1972, Risipeni

48

Ari Behn

Norwegian author and artist (1972-2020)

*September 30th, 1972, Aarhus †December 25th, 2020, Lommedalen

54

Chris Leslie

British politician (born 1972)

*June 28th, 1972, Keighley

53

Anniken Hauglie

Conservative Norwegian politician

*September 10th, 1972, Oslo

54

Roland Møller

Danish actor

*May 28th, 1972, Odense

54

Zinedine Zidane

French football manager and former player (born 1972).

*June 23rd, 1972, 16th arrondissement of Marseille

54

Dwayne Johnson

American actor and professional wrestler

*May 2nd, 1972, Hayward

53

Eminem

American rapper, record producer and actor (born 1972)

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

53

Michael Wiesinger

German association football player and manager

*December 27th, 1972, Burghausen

53

Gwyneth Paltrow

American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singer

*September 27th, 1972, Los Angeles

53

Johann von Bülow

German actor

*September 26th, 1972, Munich

53

Jude Law

English actor

*December 29th, 1972, Lewisham

53

Vanessa Paradis

French singer, model and actress

*December 22nd, 1972, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés

53

Josh Duhamel

American actor

*November 14th, 1972, Minot

54

Mike Johnson

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

*January 30th, 1972, Shreveport

53

Idris Elba

British actor

*September 6th, 1972, London Borough of Hackney

53

Toni Collette

Australian actress and musician

*November 1st, 1972, Glebe

54

Wentworth Miller

British-born American actor

*June 2nd, 1972, Chipping Norton

54

Laverne Cox

American actress and LGBT advocate (born 1972)

*May 29th, 1972, Mobile

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Leap year

Yes: 1972 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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